Promoting Growth (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

PPG and the Chemical Industry Need Help that Lawmakers Can Provide

October 6, 2015

“Modern manufacturing is sophisticated, clean and, above all, technology driven. The innovation, and life-changing technologies coming from manufacturers across the U.S., plays a central role in creating jobs and maintaining our competitive advantage in a global marketplace.

It is the adhesive that bonds together products, processes, tools, equipment, employees and customers.

The intellectual property rights behind those technologies are the lifeblood of the manufacturing economy, and the protection of those rights assures manufacturers that their inventions will be secure as they create jobs and build industries around them.”